The Rebirth plat was an ordeal. And I say that as a hardcore trophy hunter. I’ve got the platinum trophy in DMC5, and Rebirth was more stressful by far.
Legends was the perfect length. Played it for a few weeks, got all the trophies and moved on. That’s what I want from a multiplayer mode in a single player game.
Well said. This is inexcusable. As far as I can tell there was no indication from retailers or Bethesda/Microsoft that this was the situation with the Doom disc until people got the disc early and leaked the information out.
The Indiana Jones situation could have been excused as them being cheap (not for me, it was inexcusable). This however is just Microsoft being malicious. The game would have fit on a single disc that they have already paid for. They made it ***** deliberately, and they will no doubt make the Tony Hawk 3+4 and Outer Wilds 2 discs with no data deliberately.
Between the lack of, or worthless physical releases they’ve put out this year, I estimate Xbox have lost out on a fair chunk of money out of me. Shame, I was really looking forward to Doom but I’ll live without it.
@Frmknst Sorry Bobby, I just think the series is beyond stale and I thought that before they: 1. Put in loot boxes, 2. Jumped on the battle royale trend, 3. Made said BR pay to win with weapons and skins. 4. Nikki minaj. 5. Worthless game discs with no content on it 6. Bloated downloads 7. Rehashed story content 8. Cannibalised all the other Activision studios to churn out slop content over other games
That’s just what I can remember off the top of my head while sat on the toilet.
Personally AI garbage is low on my list of CoD transgressions so I summed it all up with “CoD is creatively bankrupt”.
Surely Sony didn’t need to green light 12 GaaS games simultaneously. The whole move reeked of desperation and greed from the outset and shows how clueless game executives are. Always chasing trends too late and missing the boat continuously.
So say all 12 games got made. Did Sony expect us to play all 12 simultaneously or were they expecting most to fail. Surely proceeding with your two best ideas and having the rest of your teams working on what made you a success would make more sense no? Live service games monopolise their players time to get them invested and incentivise them to start coughing up money. Nobody plays 12 live service games. They play one and getting them to jump once they are invested takes real effort. Having Bluepoint make a god of war service game is literally the dumbest thing ever when they could have been remaking Bloodborne, or the Sly Cooper trilogy or something they actually specialise in.
I’ve been fairly optimistic about this generation and have plenty of games to play and not enough time to play them all but this situation is embarrassing.
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Re: GTA 6 Physical Edition Doesn't Come with Discs, It's a Code in the Box
$80 for a disposable piece of garbage.
Re: Uproar as Halo PS5 Demands 2 PS Plus Subscriptions for Local Co-Op
The crash can’t come soon enough. Reset all this bollocks back to zero already.
Re: Persona 4 Fans Torn Over Remake's Totally New English Voice Cast
We went through this with P3 Reload and after the game came out, everybody enjoyed it and the controversy evaporated.
Re: Gears of War: E-Day Is Not Coming to PS5, Xbox Confirms Console Exclusivity
It’s a brave strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off.
Re: Rumour: Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Reveal Is a Lock for Summer Game Fest
Final Fantasy 7: Revengenance.
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Dev Regrets Brutal PS5 Platinum Trophy
The Rebirth plat was an ordeal. And I say that as a hardcore trophy hunter. I’ve got the platinum trophy in DMC5, and Rebirth was more stressful by far.
Re: 'Looks Like We Got Sucker Punched': Ghost of Yotei Fans Gutted Support Has Ended for Free Co-Op Mode
Legends was the perfect length. Played it for a few weeks, got all the trophies and moved on. That’s what I want from a multiplayer mode in a single player game.
Re: PS5 Fighter Marvel Tokon Has a 10-Hour Single Player Story, But It's a Comic with No Gameplay
So like Guilty Gear Strive. I’ll probably not bother then.
Re: Lords of the Fallen 2's Idea of Female Armour Is Downright Embarrassing
The game will find its market or it won’t. Guess we’ll see when the sale figures come in wether it worked or not.
Re: Just Hours After Closing Its RPG Studio, Nacon Confirms Showcase Date for Next Week
Hunter… The Reckoning… Deathwish….
Sounds so generic, it needs two subtitles.
Re: Our Hype for Samson on PS5 Crashes as GTA-Like Gets Slammed by Reviews
Oh no. The Minds Eye saboteur strikes again!
Re: Sony Delists 100s More Crappy PS5, PS4 Games, Including Jesus Simulator
But is Life of Black Tiger still available?
Re: Fastidiously Multiformat Square Enix Skips PS5 with Yet Another Game
Played this on 3DS years ago and honestly didn’t gel with it. The last 2/3rds of the game felt pretty insulting.
Re: Marvel's Wolverine PS5 Release Date Announced
So, put the release date out with 0 fanfare, to try and divert away from the mauling they are getting on social media. Got it.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give God of War: Sons of Sparta?
8 David Jaffe tears/10.
Re: Saros Succumbs to the Pay Extra to Play Early Trend
Not even sure I want to pay the regular price to play it on release seeing as I haven't got around to Returnal yet.
Re: SNK Confirms New Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Season with One of the Worst Trailers You'll Ever See
Hopefully there’s room on the roster for more football players haha.
Re: Almost Killed by Xbox Layoffs, John Romero's Next Game Has 'Survived'
@KoopaTheGamer They would have if they were working on something related Microsoft’s IP and now are not.
Re: Rumour: Sony's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic PS5 Remake May Soon Return
Somehow, KOTOR Remake has returned?
Re: PSA: The Original Yakuza 0 Will Be Delisted Forever When Director's Cut Drops on PS5
Haha, wow. Eat **** PS4 owners, I guess?
Re: Ubisoft Is All In on Generative AI, Says It's as Big a Leap in Tech as the 'Shift to 3D'
How’s that NTF push going Yves?
Re: 'We All Want Skate to Be Great': Skate Dev Pledges Improvements After Early Access Launch Issues
Still waiting for skate 4, EA.
Re: Study Claims Physical PS5 Games Are 100 Times Worse for the Planet Than Digital Downloads
Haha, brilliant reaction comments.
Physical forever.
Re: Call of Duty's Future Under Xbox Leaves Former Director 'Immensely Worried'
Personally, CoD peaked at CoD 4. The SAS storyline was brilliant and nothing I’ve played from the series after has got close to touching it.
Re: Confirmed: Oblivion Remastered's PS5 Physical Edition Requires 'Additional Download' to Actually Play
@ElectricWizard Yeah that’s crap too. Shameful actually.
Re: Confirmed: Oblivion Remastered's PS5 Physical Edition Requires 'Additional Download' to Actually Play
Double disc games have been a thing. This is just Bethesda and Microsoft being crap and cheap.
Re: Oblivion Remastered's Anticipated Physical PS5 Release Will Require the Internet
@Brynjir It’s not “most games” dude. Don’t parrot stuff you see online. The majority of PS5 games are included and install off the disc just fine.
Re: Oblivion Remastered's Anticipated Physical PS5 Release Will Require the Internet
Another faceplant from Microsoft. Keep on winning!
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Hollow Knight: Silksong?
@Kraven The trophy list doesn’t even look that hard. Dudes just a scrub.
Re: Skate's Free-to-Play Revival Rides into Early Access on PS5, PS4 in September
@Northern_munkey A sign of when it began development I suspect. Anyway, I wanted skate 4, so this can do one.
Re: Preview: Rolling the Dice on PS5's Next Big Gacha, the Anime Open World RPG NTE
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Another one to add to the pile of slot machine adjacent “games” with anime boobs vying for your wallets attention.
Re: Tales of Xillia Remastered Releases October for PS5, Xillia 2 Not Included
Why bundle it when you can sell the sequel separately next year. Then bundle them both later!
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate State of Play for June 2025?
I feel like it was made specifically for me. I’d play all of those games.
Re: Rockstar Quietly Increases Prices of Red Dead Redemption Games on PS4
My second hand RDR2 was 12 quid and came with a map and two discs.
Re: Fairgames, One of Sony's Last Live-Service PS5 Games, Loses Studio Founder Amid Internal Worries
Raymond has to have bailed on more games than she's completed at this point.
Re: Reaction: Game Key PS5 Discs Are a Disgrace, and Sony Should Put a Stop to Them
Well said. This is inexcusable. As far as I can tell there was no indication from retailers or Bethesda/Microsoft that this was the situation with the Doom disc until people got the disc early and leaked the information out.
Re: PS5 Fans Furious As Microsoft Ships DOOM: The Dark Ages with Just 85MB on the Disc
The Indiana Jones situation could have been excused as them being cheap (not for me, it was inexcusable). This however is just Microsoft being malicious. The game would have fit on a single disc that they have already paid for. They made it ***** deliberately, and they will no doubt make the Tony Hawk 3+4 and Outer Wilds 2 discs with no data deliberately.
Between the lack of, or worthless physical releases they’ve put out this year, I estimate Xbox have lost out on a fair chunk of money out of me. Shame, I was really looking forward to Doom but I’ll live without it.
Re: Rumour: DOOM: The Dark Ages PS5's Physical Edition May Require a Download to Start
Apparently the ps5 version has 85mb of data on the disc. Seriously, ***** Microsoft.
Re: Xbox Now Selling PS5 Games for $80, Joins Switch 2 in Price Increase
I won’t even buy a game for £70, so good luck with that.
Re: Ex-Xbox Console Exclusive Indiana Jones Will Be Available Physically on PS5, But May Require an Internet Connection
Well that’s money saved if the download requirement is true. I’ll use the money for a more deserving game (or two, lol 70 quid).
Re: PS5 Mega-Flop Concord Is Reaching Absurdly High Prices on eBay
There are literally stacks of this game on eBay for under 30 quid. This article is just misinformation.
Re: Rockstar Acquires Remaster Dev That Fixed Awful GTA Trilogy
@12AngryCats They already did, that’s Brendan McNamara.
Re: Call of Duty Confirms Use of Generative AI in Blockbuster PS5, PS4 Franchise
@Frmknst Sorry Bobby, I just think the series is beyond stale and I thought that before they:
1. Put in loot boxes,
2. Jumped on the battle royale trend,
3. Made said BR pay to win with weapons and skins.
4. Nikki minaj.
5. Worthless game discs with no content on it
6. Bloated downloads
7. Rehashed story content
8. Cannibalised all the other Activision studios to churn out slop content over other games
That’s just what I can remember off the top of my head while sat on the toilet.
Personally AI garbage is low on my list of CoD transgressions so I summed it all up with “CoD is creatively bankrupt”.
Anyway, resume enjoying your game. Peace.
Re: Call of Duty Confirms Use of Generative AI in Blockbuster PS5, PS4 Franchise
The whole series has been creatively bankrupt for the last 15 years, so makes sense that they can’t even be bothered to make it themselves anymore.
Re: Tides of Annihilation Looks Like PS5's Next Big Thing in Outrageous Extended Gameplay
Glad they consulted with Dick Van Dyke on how to do a cockney accent.
Re: Poll: What Did You Think of Sony's State of Play for February 2025?
Cue 300 comments of people saying it was *****…
I think it was pretty good. Lots of interesting games. Only time I reached for my phone was when we had yet another FNAF game.
Re: Fans Are Buying Fewer Boxed Video Games Than Ever in the US
Sure is fun having this topic parroted every week.
Re: Here's How to Get a Physical Copy of Ninja Gaiden 2's Remake for PS5
Ordered. Game looks great and I’ve never played any version of NG2 so I’ll add it to the pile.
Re: Horizon's MMO Appears to Have Been Cancelled
Surely Sony didn’t need to green light 12 GaaS games simultaneously. The whole move reeked of desperation and greed from the outset and shows how clueless game executives are. Always chasing trends too late and missing the boat continuously.
So say all 12 games got made. Did Sony expect us to play all 12 simultaneously or were they expecting most to fail. Surely proceeding with your two best ideas and having the rest of your teams working on what made you a success would make more sense no? Live service games monopolise their players time to get them invested and incentivise them to start coughing up money. Nobody plays 12 live service games. They play one and getting them to jump once they are invested takes real effort. Having Bluepoint make a god of war service game is literally the dumbest thing ever when they could have been remaking Bloodborne, or the Sly Cooper trilogy or something they actually specialise in.
I’ve been fairly optimistic about this generation and have plenty of games to play and not enough time to play them all but this situation is embarrassing.
Re: Lunar Remastered Collection Brings Two Classic RPGs to PS4 in April
@Angelus3K I think clear river are based in Europe. LRG will probably do NA. Both are owned by Embracer.